Ivan Gololobov (b.1975) has previously worked as a Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (1998) and at the Institute of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflicts, University of Bochum, Germany (2004–2006), and taught at the University of the West of England in Bristol (2007). He has participated in a number of international research projects including «Far from the cities: Social transformation of the post-Soviet village» (German Research Council 2002–2005) and «The role of regions in transforming post-communist societies» (INTAS 1999–2002). He is currently teaching and working as a Research Fellow on the AHRC funded project on ‘Post-socialist punk’ at the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick.